The Cardinals are reeling, and they must fire their head coach. Here’s why it would be best for all involved.
The “kliff kingsbury” is a coach of the Arizona Cardinals. He has been in charge for two seasons and has had his fair share of success as well as some failures. After another collapse, it is time for the Cardinals to fire kliff kingsbury.
Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury was getting some well-deserved coach of the year buzz after opening the 2021 NFL season with an undefeated 7-0 record. However, the Cardinals would only win five more games the rest of the season, ending with a 12-6 overall record and losing five of their last six games (including the playoffs.)
Collapses have been a frequent theme for Kingsbury throughout his coaching career, from college to the NFL. He lost five of his last six games as the head coach of Texas Tech in 2013, four of his final six games in 2014, four of his final six games in 2015, six of his final eight games in 2016, six of his final eight games in 2017, and all of his final five games as the head coach of Tech in 2018.
In Arizona, things did not improve much in the second half of the season, as Kingsbury’s Cardinals teams proceeded to slip down a figurative “cliff.” Arizona lost seven of their last nine games in 2019, five of their final seven games in 2020, and then the aforementioned fiasco this year under Kingsbury. Here are three reasons why Kingsbury should be dismissed by the Cardinals (apart from the fact that the team is failing).
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3. His system is ineffective.
Kliff Kingsbury is known for attempting to build the closest thing to a “Air Raid” scheme in NFL history. The “Air Raid,” which was made famous by Hal Mumme, is a pass-heavy approach with a limited rushing game. It doesn’t work in the NFL because it places too much emphasis on ensuring “big-on-big” pass protection, which means the running back is generally only expected to block linebackers rather than defensive linemen. However, advanced NFL blitzes render the offense susceptible. It has also failed because it used very wide offensive line splits, making double teams difficult to form in the running game. You won’t be successful if you can’t double team men in your own division like Aaron Donald and Nick Bosa. That has been the case for Kingsbury, who has played the Rams and Aaron Donald seven times since his NFL debut, with Arizona winning just one of those games.
2. He has never won anything in his life.
This is significant since the Cardinals are another team that has never won a championship. The Cardinals haven’t won a Super Bowl or an NFL title since 1947, when they were still based in Chicago. Shouldn’t the team hire someone who has already won a Lombardi Trophy if they’re going to win for the first time? Not only has Kingsbury never won a playoff game and his teams have repeatedly wilted at the conclusion of seasons, but as the head coach of Texas Tech, he has never even won a BIG-12 conference title. We get it, the man looks like a model and should definitely run for president, but Kingsbury does not have the track record to be “the guy” when it comes to bringing winning football to the desert. Given the team’s problems in 2021, the Cardinals may want to give him one more year to see what he can accomplish, but that would likely be their version of “kicking the can down the road” rather than making a decision right now.
1. Kyler Murray’s contract is coming to an end.
Murray’s rookie contract expires in two years (with a club option for the second year), so he might be in line for a sizable payoff by the 2023 season at the earliest. Either the Cardinals must have a winning squad before Murray’s contract expires, or one of two things will occur. One, they risk losing Murray to free agency, which occurs seldom to franchise quarterbacks in their prime; or two, they risk paying Murray $40 million per year rather than the more manageable $6-12 million per year he received in the first agreement. That leaves the organization with $30 million every season to spend on upgrading surrounding Murray. It will be difficult to enhance the squad around him if he spends that much money. All the more motivation for the Cardinals to go all-in on winning over the next two seasons, and if they want to do so, Kingsbury should definitely be let go.
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